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Test no. 1775

Sri Lanka in India Test Series - 1st Test
India v Sri Lanka

2005/06 season

Played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, on 2,3,4,5,6 December 2005 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	G Gambhir	b Vaas	0	11	7	0	0	0.00
	V Sehwag	c Atapattu b Vaas	36	43	28	7	0	128.57
	R Dravid	c Sangakkara b Vaas	32	142	105	3	0	30.47
	SR Tendulkar	lbw b Muralitharan	22	157	126	2	0	17.46
	VVS Laxman	run out (sub [WU Tharanga]/Sangakkara)	5	64	43	1	0	11.62
	SC Ganguly	c Dilshan b Fernando	5	31	24	1	0	20.83
	MS Dhoni	c Gunawardene b Bandara	30	83	54	6	0	55.55
	IK Pathan	c & b Muralitharan	0	5	4	0	0	0.00
	AB Agarkar	run out (Gunawardene/Sangakkara)	4	19	16	0	0	25.00
	A Kumble	c & b Vaas	9	37	35	1	0	25.71
	Harbhajan Singh	not out	4	6	4	1	0	100.00
	Extras	(b 12, lb 2, nb 6)	20

	Total	(all out; 73.2 overs; 303 mins)	167	(2.27 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-13 (Gambhir, 2.1 ov), 2-45 (Sehwag, 8.5 ov), 3-97 (Dravid, 37.2 ov), 4-108 (Tendulkar, 49.1 ov), 5-109 (Laxman, 53.1 ov), 6-117 (Ganguly, 56.4 ov), 7-118 (Pathan, 57.3 ov), 8-128 (Agarkar, 62.2 ov), 9-159 (Kumble, 72.2 ov), 10-167 (Dhoni, 73.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	21	14	20	4	0.95
CRD Fernando	16	4	58	1	3.62	(6nb)
M Muralitharan	25	6	60	2	2.40
CM Bandara	11.2	6	15	1	1.32


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	DA Gunawardene	c Dhoni b Pathan	4	6	6	1	0	66.66
	KC Sangakkara	lbw b Kumble	30	73	52	5	0	57.69
	DPMD Jayawardene	c Gambhir b Kumble	71	119	80	14	1	88.75
	TT Samaraweera	not out	35	97	93	7	0	37.63
	MS Atapattu	b Kumble	7	38	20	1	0	35.00
	TM Dilshan	not out	8	14	14	1	0	57.14
	Extras	(w 1, nb 7, pen 5)	13

	Total	(4 wickets; 43 overs; 179 mins)	168	(3.90 runs per over)

Did not bat WPUJC Vaas, CM Bandara, CRD Fernando, M Muralitharan, J Mubarak

Fall of wickets1-5 (Gunawardene, 0.6 ov), 2-62 (Sangakkara, 14.6 ov), 3-124 (Jayawardene, 28.6 ov), 4-158 (Atapattu, 38.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
IK Pathan	7	0	43	1	6.14	(1w)
AB Agarkar	10	3	29	0	2.90
SC Ganguly	2	0	16	0	8.00	(2nb)
Harbhajan Singh	9	2	34	0	3.77
A Kumble	15	3	41	3	2.73	(5nb)

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series 3-match series level 0-0

Test debut MS Dhoni (India)
Player of the match WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka)

Umpires MR Benson (England) and DJ Harper (Australia)
TV umpire K Hariharan
Match referee CH Lloyd (West Indies)

Close of play
2 Dec day 1 - no play
3 Dec day 2 - no play
4 Dec day 3 - no play
5 Dec day 4 - India 1st innings 90/2 (R Dravid 30*, SR Tendulkar 11*, 32.3 ov)
6 Dec day 5 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 168/4 (43 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Day 1
Day's play called off due to heavy rain.

Day 2
Play called off due to wet conditions

Day 3
Play called off due to wet conditions